Kettle Valley Railway
Vocabulary

Using Context Clues

Define the underlined word in each sentence in the space below the sentence or write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. While the train has stopped, two young men have quickly heaved themselves to the top of the train.
   
2. He became famous for his work on the Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass on the BC-Alberta border near Lake Louise.
   
3. Railway building was booming in Canada.
   
4. McCulloch sometimes had trouble finding skilled labourers.
   
5. Black powder was the explosive used by early railway builders.
   
6. In 1917, a snow and rock slide hit the end of a plow train, and the caboose fell into the canyon.
   
7. Old timers who travelled as passengers remember their experiences fondly.
   
8. The CPR said maintenance was too costly.
   
9. Almost one hundred years after the Kettle Valley Railway began, its rebirth is underway.
   

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